Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

A book is never finished it's abandoned.

Riches bring only problems and sorrows to people

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.

Education is very important. I think I understand education.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.